IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2023: Reflections
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The Importance of Bipolarity in the Indo-Pacific
Verla: I thought that the speech by Joseph Burrell, the HRVP of the External Action Service of the EU, was actually very, very strong. For Japan, very clearly the focus was on China, both military assertiveness as well as economic coercion; for South Korea, an entire focus on the DPRK. But interestingly, a thread that ran through both was firstly, the fact that Russia, you know, tying again the Eurodlandsing and the endups of it together, neither Russia nor the DPRK should be allowed to succeed. And then secondly, that these dynamics that we're seeing in the ratcheting up of tensions and the use of this kind of unacceptable force
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